AMD to be big winner, Intel big loser in 2006 chip rankings

A preliminary ranking from market research firm iSuppli shows that Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is expected to have made big gains when all the chips have been counted at the end of the year.

AMD and Hynix Semiconductor will crack the top 10 this year, and AMD should jump from number 15 last year to number 7 this year on a 91 percent uptick in semiconductor revenue. Intel’s (INTC) chip sales slumped 11 percent.

*AMD revenues include its purchase of graphics chipmaker ATI, and Infineon’s numbers dropped mainly because it spun out Qimonda.

Below is iSuppli’s preliminary ranking of the world’s top 25 semiconductor suppliers for 2006. Sales are in millions of dollars.


06 Rank	Company Name	05 Sales	06 Sales	% chg
1	Intel	35,466	31,359	-11.6%
2	Samsung Electronics	17,210	19,207	11.6%
3	Texas Instruments	10,745	12,832	19.4%
4	Toshiba	9,077	10,166	12.0%
5	STMicroelectronics	8,881	9,931	11.8%
6	Renesas Technology	8,266	8,221	-0.5%
7	Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)*	3,917	7,471	90.7%
8	Hynix	5,560	7,365	32.5%
9	NXP	5,646	6,221	10.2%
10	Freescale Semiconductor	5,598	6,059	8.2%
11	NEC Electronics	5,710	5,696	-0.2%
12	Qimonda*	0	5,549	NA
13	Micron Technology	4,775	5,290	10.8%
14	Infineon Technologies*	8,297	5,195	-37.4%
15	Sony	4,574	4,875	6.6%
16	Qualcomm	3,457	4,466	29.2%
17	Matsushita Electric	4,131	4,124	-0.2%
18	Broadcom	2,671	3,657	36.9%
19	Sharp Electronics	3,266	3,476	6.4%


20	Elpida Memory	1,776	3,354	88.9%
21	IBM Microelectronics	2,792	3,151	12.9%
22	Rohm	2,909	2,964	1.9%
23	Spansion	2,054	2,617	27.4%
24	Analog Devices	2,428	2,599	7.0%
25	nVidia	2,069	2,475	19.6%
	Other Companies:	75,985	80,212	5.6%
	Total Sales:	237,260	258,532	9.0%

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AMD to be big winner, Intel big loser in 2006 chip rankings